PART 11

Miscellaneous

Duties to co-operate

Care Quality Commission: duty to co-operate with Monitor
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1
Section 70 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (co-operation between the Commission and the Independent Regulator of NHS foundation trusts) is amended as follows.
2
For subsection (1) substitute—
1
The Commission must co-operate with Monitor in the exercise of their respective functions.
3
For subsection (2) substitute—
2
In particular the Commission must—
a
give Monitor any information the Commission has about the provision of health care which the Commission or Monitor considers would assist Monitor in the exercise of its functions,
b
make arrangements with Monitor to ensure that—
i
a person applying to be both registered under Chapter 2 and for a licence under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 may do so by way of a single application form, and
ii
such a person is granted a registration under Chapter 2 and a licence under that Act by way of a single document, and
c
seek to secure that the conditions on a registration under Chapter 2 in a case within paragraph (b) are consistent with the conditions included in the person’s licence under that Act.
4
In subsection (3)—
a
for “Independent Regulator” substitute “Monitor”, and
b
for “an NHS foundation trust” substitute “a person who holds a licence under the Health and Social Care Act 2012”.
5
After that subsection insert—
4
In this section, a reference to a licence under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 is a reference to a licence under Chapter 3 of Part 3 of that Act.
6
In the heading of that section, for “Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts” substitute “Monitor”.